I love how when one petty Raimi basher posts a little less, another one appears to pick up the slack. You can target select scenes and elements and nitpick them to death, but Raimi was still a lot truer to the source material than most comic book adaptations are to their respective comics. (The only exception I can think of would be Watchmen.) This board would be a lot less annoying if you lot took a moment out of your day to get friendly with the definition of 'adaptation.'
Listen, I found Raimi's films entertaining and was always excited to see them. That doesn't mean they were more accurate than, say, Nolan's Batfilms. Raimi never nailed the characters of Peter Parker/Spider-Man or MJ, which is crucial. That's not to say he didn't do anything right. But the most important thing in an adaptation is staying true to the characters and feel of the source, which Raimi did moderately at best.
So if someone takes a picture of an unmasked Spider-Man they could not sell it to a publication (Bugle/JJ)? and they could not identify who this "unmasked" person is?
Exactly. JJJ can be oblivious, but I think he'd know exactly who that was the second he got that picture. So, like, five seconds after that fight (and only because the network would be so slow from everyone on that train sending pictures everywhere).
Census! Also, Pete lives in one of the burrows and the census counted all the burrows that make up NYC. I think I count 6 people that knew Peter was Spidey and 4 of those are deadzo.
Looked into your figure. You're counting the entire New York metro area. The city, including all five boroughs, has a population of approximately 8 million. The metro area includes parts of Long Island (including Hempstead), Westchester (including Yonkers and White Plains), upstate NY (including Poughkeepsie) New Jersey (including Newark), and Connecticut (including Bridgeport and New Haven), bringing the figure up to 19 million as of 2009.
Many of those people commute, so let's say there are about 10 million in NYC on a daily basis. Well, Peter goes to Columbia, so we can assume he spends a lot of time in a few block radius of that school. I don't remember where his apartment is, but I'm guessing either Washington Heights (because of its proximity to his school) or somewhere in the Lower East Side (because of its proximity to his job). His job is in the goddamn Flatiron Building on E. 23rd St., a pretty well-traveled part of town.
Ignoring the fact that there is no elevated line in the part of town that Chicago stands in for here, nor does the R train run that far west, they were on the train from the Upper West Side (although the buildings CG'd in are located on the Upper East Side and Midtown East) down to the bottom of the island, which is plenty of time for pictures to get taken and plenty of time for those who see this happening to remember what his face looks like. Of the people on the train, it's very likely that someone will see him around campus, walking to or from the Bugle, or walking to or from his apartment. The R train also goes to Forest Hills (which is marked on the train in some shots), where Aunt May lives. If he goes home at any point, the likelihood of him riding with someone from that train someday is pretty strong. I mean, ****, I saw the same girl on the train home every day after work for a month.
If Peter was wandering aimlessly about the city at all times, you'd have a point, but with him going to the same places all the time, not far from this train's route, he'd be found out without much trouble.
